On October 9th, UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and Provost and Vice-President Academic Gage Averill participated in a tour of Emerging Media Lab hosted by Jennifer Burns, Associate Vice-President IT and CIO, and Simon Bates, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Teaching and Learning.
After a brief overview of EML’s history, influence, and philosophy, the guests got to experience demos of some past EML projects. Through these demos, the tour highlighted EML’s innovative solutions to pedagogical and research challenges, showing projects like the award-nominated Judicial Interrogatory Simulator and the Behavioural Biomarker to emphasize EML’s inter-disciplinary nature.
You can find a full list of the demoed projects, as well as links to their project pages, below:
Behavioural Biomarker: A VR navigation task to measure cognitive decline in participants affected by preclinical Alzheimer’s disease.
Judicial Interrogatory Simulator (JIS): An artificial intelligence tool building upon the Moot Court project.
Procedural Poetry Funhouse: A project that aims to use AI and VR to reimagine poetry as a physical space, using the philosophy of play-based learning to further student understanding of poetry and the process behind it.
3D Metabolism: Provides a novel way to visualize the information contained in a metabolic network to make it easier to consume and understand
